Is the hit reg wonky atm?

February 17, 2020

I know the game has had long term problems with "desync" and the like but lately I've had some very strange anomalies with my accuracy and I'm finding it really dispiriting. I'm genuinely starting to think there is some kind of weird lag or inconsistency with hit registration or something.

Had two games on Interchange today, both featured this weirdness and felt really "off".

Case 1

I'm at the Power Station with my buddy and we look out the window. There's a PMC coming about 50 metres away. I fire three shots from my SKS and he goes down immediately, 3 hits.

5 minutes later a Player Scav comes in the building. He aims at my buddy from behind him for a good four seconds, not seeing me, and during this time I crouched, ADS and put 10 rounds from my SKS towards his torso.

During this shooting he was spasming around and blood was going everywhere...but he then shoots my buddy, turns around, and shoots me. Post death screen: 14 shots, 4 hits. Three of those were on the PMC, so apparently I fired 11 shots at that Scav and got 1 hit. ONE. On a stationary Scav 15 metres away, who was completely oblivious and was spasming like he was getting hit with every shot. I'm usually an accurate shot and this just seems completely bizarre to me, but okay...

Case 2

Same SKS loadout. Go into IDEA. Run into 2 geared PMCs, me and my buddy drop back and I go prone and set up a kill zone, anticipating their push. As expected, one pushes straight forward, completely out of cover. I carefully line the shots and start plinking away taking my time, and again this PMC is spasming about like crazy with blood puffs. PEWPEWPEW he sprays back full auto and kills me after I fire half a mag.

End tally: 10 shots, 3 hits. Again, really? The guy was barely moving, and on my screen I can visibly see like 7-8 hits with the way his body is getting smashed around. My buddy, for the record, fired 20 shots at the same guy without a single registered hit. And he's not a bad shot.

I went on Offline Mode to try out the same loadout and I'm getting 60-70% accuracy on Scavs and very tight groupings when firing at walls 50m away even when I'm firing like a maniac. By comparison in online mode it feels like my SKS is shooting buckshot or something. I'm beyond confused.

February 18, 2020

Yes I've noticed this too. Hit reg has been very odd since the last two patches, and I think its the servers being overloaded. That, or you've been running into lag-switchers/ping abusers, which might also describe your encounters... For them you stand still, so they can unload, but for you, it's like nothing hits.